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(No Model.)

S. J. VAN STAVOREN. GAR AXLE BOX PEDESTAL.

Patented Oct. 9, 1894.

IN VENTOR WITNESSES Tn: NDRRIS wmns co. wnorauma. wnsmnsmu o c I U ITE STATES PATE T OFFICE.

A SAMUEL VAN'STAVOREN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES F. VAN HORN, OF SAME PLACE.

CiAR-AXLE-BOX PEDESTAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,090, dated October 9, 1894.

Application filed February a 1894. Serial No. 499,565. (No model.)

others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to car'axle-box pedestals of the type wherein the component parts are made of wrought or rolled metal riveted or otherwise secured together; and

it has for its object simplicity and economy of construction of the component parts whereby they may be readily and economically assembled and secured-together to form the pedestal. i

My invention accordingly consists of the combinations, constructions, and arrangements of parts as hereinafter more fully set forth in the specification and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a face elevation of an axle-box pedestalembodying my improvements. Fig. 2, is aside elevation of'the same. Fig. 3, is a like view showing modification in construcparts of the pedestal.

A represents the pedestal composed of wrought or rolled metal parts consisting of the upper or bearing part B, and the axle-box guides or supports 0. The upper part B is made up of two L or other suitably shaped tion' and arrangements of the component angle plates the vertical webs b of which are provided with suitable openings for the passage of the fastening media for securing the pedestal to the car or its truck.

In Figs. 1 and 2, the guides O are represented as composed of an inverted U shaped plate having top horizontally located web 0 b of angle irons B may be provided with suitable openings for the passage of rivets or screws 12 for securing said-parts together or they may be electrically or otherwise welded as desired. The webs 0 may be provided with, suitable'openings c for the passage of vertically located bolts forfastening the pedestal to its support. I Thelower ends of each of the guides C are strengthened or secured rigidly together by angleiirons or braces D E if desired, being located relatively to said ends-and to eachother as desired or as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

If desired the U shaped guides C may be arranged as shown in Fig. 3, that is to say, with'their webs c at their bottoms, in which case, the ends 0 of the sides 0 are bent in-' wardly as shown in Fig. 3 and provided with rivet openings for fastening to cross plates G and t0 the angle irons B, said cross-plates G- bei'ng used for stifiening or strengthening I purposes but if desired, they may be dispensed with. I

.In the last described form only one lower brace D need be used for-stiffening the lower end of the'g'uide C, but in some cases said brace D may be dispensed with.

' What I claim is- 1. An axle-box pedestal composed of top angle irons B, and U shaped guides O secured together, substantially as set forth.

2. In an axle-box pedestal the combination of angle iron top plates B, the inverted U shaped guides O uniting said angle irons, and brace or braces for the lower ends of said guides, substantially as set forth.

In testi mony whereof I affix my signature in \Vitn esses:

JOHN RODGERS,

A. C. ALEXANDER. 

